What is CVE-2018-13281?

CVE-2018-13281 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Synology Diskstation Manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2018-10-31.

How severe is CVE-2018-13281?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Information disclosure in Synology Diskstation Manager

CVE-2018-13281

Information exposure vulnerability in SYNO.Core.ACL in Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) before 6.2-23739-2 allows remote authenticated users to determine the existence and obtain the metadata of arbitrary files via the file_path parameter.

Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure

Published 2018-10-31 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.5th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 66.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Synology Diskstation Manager — versions 5.2, 6.0
Synology Diskstation Manager (Dsm) — versions unspecified
Synology Skynas
Synology Vs960hd

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-200 — Information Disclosure

References

www.synology.com/en-global/support/security/Synology_SA_18_36 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-13281?: CVE-2018-13281 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Synology Diskstation Manager, classified under Information Disclosure. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2018-10-31.
How severe is CVE-2018-13281?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.